Hi there Wil! I am one of the geeks in charge of a Minneapolis area convention called CONvergence. You probably heard about it from Jeremy who was at w00tstock in Minneapolis. We hear a lot of the same things about CONvergence that you've been hearing about w00tstock, that it's like "coming home" for our attendees and guests.
If you're ever available around the 4th of July weekend, we'd love to have you as our guest and you can see for yourself. I think Jeremy already gave you my business card, but you can contact me at this email address or at lex@convergence-con.org.
P.S. Heard through the grapevine that you enjoyed The Current radio station from MPR. It's absolutely the best thing to happen to radio in ages. Glad you liked it!

When Paul and Storm and Adam Savage and I had our first conversations about what would become w00tstock, we knew that we wanted to put on an entertaining show for our fellow nerds that would be successful enough to warrant more than the three shows we originally planned. Sunday and Monday, we're...